Word: shortend
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Said the council's press and publicity liaison Victor Chiu '95, "I don't think that the council disagrees with the fact that the 29 Garden St. residents got the shortend of the straw. However, I don't think thisresolution is the way to go about remedying thisproblem...
...movie critic Roger Ebert, and others. In addition, the paper has published award-winning investigative reports. But the Sun-Times is a tabloid, one whose weaknesses existed long before Rupert Murdoch ever saw Chicago. With few foreign bureaus, the paper relies heavily on the wire services; it often runs shortend and unexciting syndicated features; and it has two gossip columnists whose contributions often read like unused scripts for Entertainment Tonight segments. Murdoch won't have too much to change...
...Chileans had it easiest. Their shortend stretch-204 miles out of a total of 559-rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter...
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